Vincente (Devarieux) Des Varieux & Pierre Gagnon
Vincente Des Varieux (1624 – 1695)
Variants: Desvrieux, De Varieux, Devanier
Parents
She was the daughter of Jean (Desvarieux) Des Varieux (1600-after 1642) and Marie (Chevalier) Devarieux (1600-1695).[1]
Birth
She was born around 1624 in Saint-Vincent-d’Aubermail, Pays de Caux, Seine-Maritime, France.
Marriage
On September 14, 1642, at Notre-Dame Parish in Quebec, Canada, Vincente Des Varieux, aged ~18 years, married Pierre Gagnon, aged 30 years, son of Pierre Gaignon (c.1572-1633) and Renée Roger (c.1580-after 1647) (also known as Renée Madeleine Roger).[2][3]
Children of Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Desvarieux[4]
- +Jean (1643 – 1699)
- Anne (1643 – 1666)
- +Pierre (1646 – 1687)
- Jeanne (1648 – 1648)
- Pierre-Paul (1649 – 1711)
- Joseph (1651 – 1680)
- René (1653 – 1653)
- Marie-Madeleine (1655 – 1677)
- Raphaël (1658 – 1681)
- +Noël (1660 – 1708)
1666 Census
Pierre Gagnon, 50, merchant; Vincente des Varieux, 42, his wife; Jean, 22; Pierre, 20; Paul, 16; Joseph, 14; Marie, 11; Raphaël, 8; Noël, 6; Frs Lacroix, 25, indentured servant. They lived in Beaupré, Canada.
1667 Census
Pierre Gaignon, 52; Vincente Desvarieux, his wife, 45; Jean, 13; Pierre, 21; Pierre Paul, 18; Joseph, 15; Marie, 12; Raphaël, 9; Noël, 7; servants: Francois de la Croix, 26; Pierre Poupard, 27; Sanson Auger, 25; 17 livestock, 30 arpents of developed land. They lived on the coast of Beaupré, Canada.
1681 Census
Pierre Gagnon, 70; Vincente Devanier (Desvarieux), his wife, 60; Noël, their son, 22; servants: Jean Savard, 24; Pierre, 17; Noël Chapelier, 14; Marie Chapelier, 12; 2 guns; 22 horned animals; 40 arpents of developed land. They lived in the Seigneurie of Beaupré, Canada.
Death
On January 2, 1695, at about 71 years of age, Vincente des Varieux died and was buried on January 3, 1695, at La-Visitation-de-Notre-Dame Parish, Château-Richer, Canada.[5]
Pierre GAGNON [Gaingnon, Gangnon, and Gaignon] (1612 – 1699)[6][7][8][9][10] [Carpin #57][11][12]
Parents
He was the son of Pierre Gagnon and Renée Roger.
Baptism
Pierre Gagnon was baptized on February 14, 1612, in the Sainte-Madeleine Church of La Ventrouze, located in the diocese of Chartres and the former province of Perche.[13][14][15]
Migration to New France
He migrated to Canada with his brothers, Mathurin and Jean, around 1640.[16] He is first mentioned at a marriage on September 14, 1642, in Quebec. He could not sign his name and obtained land before 1641.[11:1][17]
The following additional family members joined them in Canada around 1643: his mother Renée Roger, his brother-in-law Eloi Tavernier, his sister Marguerite, and his nieces Marthe Gagnon, and Marguerite and Marie Tavernier.
From 1640 at the latest until 1646, the Beaupré Company had leased the Saint-Charles domain, one of the domains of Cap Tourmente on the Beaupré coast between Blondel River and Cap Tourmente, to the brothers Mathurin, Pierre, and Jean Gagnon.[18] The three brothers settled in Beaupré between Sault-à-la-Puce and Rivière-aux-Chiens on the following lands:[19]
- Jean, land 78
- Mathurin, lands 73, 79 & 115
- Pierre, lands 71, 72, 79 & 138
Marriage
On September 14, 1642, at Notre-Dame Parish in Quebec, Canada, Pierre Gagnon, aged 30, married Vincente Desvarieux, aged ~18, daughter of Jean Desvarieux and Marie Chevalier, originally from Aubermail in Normandy.[20]
Children of Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Desvarieux[21]
- +Jean (1643 – 1699)
- Anne (1643 – 1666)
- +Pierre (1646 – 1687)
- Jeanne (1648 – 1648)
- Pierre-Paul (1649 – 1711)
- Joseph (1651 – 1680)
- René (1653 – 1653)
- Marie-Madeleine (1655 – 1677)
- Raphaël (1658 – 1681)
- +Noël (1660 – 1708)
Confirmation
On August 10, 1659, Pierre Gagnon was confirmed in the Catholic faith at Notre-Dame Church in Quebec by Monseigneur de Laval.[22][23]
Census Records
Pierre Gagnon’s family appears in the Beaupré enumerations of the 1666, 1667, and 1681 censuses:
- 1666, Beaupré enumeration: Pierre Gagnon, 50, merchant; Vincente des Varieux, 42, his wife; Jean, 22; Pierre, 20; Paul, 16; Joseph, 14; Marie, 11; Raphaël, 8; Noël, 6; Frs Lacroix, 25, indentured servant (Lacroix-14).[24]
- 1667, Beaupré enumeration: A dwelling belonging to Pierre Gagnon where nobody lives; 20 arpents of developed land.[25]
- 1681, Beaupré enumeration: Pierre Gagnon, 70; Vincente Devanier (Desvarieux), his wife, 60; Noël, their son, 22; servants: Jean Savard, 24; Pierre, 17; Noël Chapelier, 14; Marie Chapelier, 12; 2 guns; 22 horned animals; 40 arpents of developed land.[26]
Death
On April 17, 1699, at the age of 87, Pierre Gagnon died and was buried the following day in the cemetery of La-Visitation-de-Notre-Dame Parish in Château-Richer.[27]
He had 218 descendants by 1729.[28]
Surnames
Other Gagnon family surnames: Belisle, Belzile, Belzils, Le Sauvage.[29][30]
Name Origin
Sources
- Burial – Vincente des Varieux – FamilySearch. ↩︎
- Tanguay – vol. 1 p. 246 – 1642, Gagnon Pierre – Vincente Desvarieux daughter of Jean and Marie Chevalier. ↩︎
- Marriage – Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Du Varieux. ↩︎
- Pierre Gagnon – Vincente Des Varieux – Fichier origine 241625 ↩︎
- Généalogie Québec 629 ↩︎
- Fichier Origine 241625: Pierre Gagnon, son of Pierre Gagnon ↩︎
- PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (free): Pioneer: 31801 PRDH Pioneer 31801: Pierre Gagnon ↩︎
- Nos Origines 1645: Pierre Gagnon ↩︎
- Généalogie Québec 629: Pierre Gagnon, orthographic variant, Gaignon ↩︎
- Research in the online database Our Roots: Gagnon, 86 titles; Gaignon, 3 titles ↩︎
- Carpin 1999, Appendix D, p. 572 ↩︎ ↩︎
- Numbered #57 in Carpin’s list and in the list that can be seen on the Percheron Immigration Category page. ↩︎
- Fichier Origine 241625 ↩︎
- PRDH: Research Programme in Historical Demography (free): Pioneer: 31801 PRDH Pioneer 31801 ↩︎
- Historical and modern geography of the birthplace: La Ventrouze (INSEE 61500) is today known as the French commune located in the Mortagne-au-Perche district of the Orne department in the Normandy region; and place of baptism according to PRDH: Date – 1612-02-14. Place – ste-madeleine de la ventrouze, diocese of chartres, perche (district of mortagne, orne). ↩︎
- Ships come in new france seafarers and passenger, Canadian Websites, Arrival of Gagnon family, 1640, Mathurin, his daughter Martha, his brothers Jean and Pierre, and mother Renée Rogers. https://www.naviresnouvellefrance.net/html/vaisseaux2/autrespassagers/autrespassagersFreGal.html#gagnonpierre ↩︎
- Lesperance 2002 citing Jetté 1983, p. 451: “GAGNON, Jean and brothers Pierre & Mathurin (sons of Pierre & Renee ROGER) departed La Ventrouze 1635.” ↩︎
- Gariépy (1974), p. 50 ↩︎
- Gariépy (1974), p. 24: The numbering of lands was as established by Gariépy in this book. ↩︎
- Marriage – Pierre Gagnon & Vincente Du Varieux. ↩︎
- Généalogie Québec 629 ↩︎
- Confirmation Pierre Gagnon. ↩︎
- Francogene Pierre Gagnon – Vincente Desvarieux. ↩︎
- Senécal, Census of 1666 ↩︎
- Senécal, Census of 1667 ↩︎
- Senécal, Census of 1681 ↩︎
- Burial – Pierre Gagnon – FamilySearch. ↩︎
- La Mémoire du Québec, Pierre Gagnon ↩︎
- Tanguay ↩︎
- PRDH Name-Nickname Associations: Bellesisles (110), Belisle (10), Chartrand (4), Rondin (3), Castonguay, Delagrève, Dutilly, Gaillard, Lachaplau & Ste-Marie (2 each), 21 other nicknames (1 each) ↩︎
- Picard (2007), p. 10: “First, this strangely isolates Gagnon from Gagné, which comes from the old French gaaigne ‘arable land’, as well as from its numerous derivatives, most of which mean ‘plowman’. Morlet cites Gagnant, Gagné, Gagnaire, Ga(i)gneux, Gagneur, Gagneor, Ga(i)gnoux, Gagnadour, Gagnedour, Ga(i)gn(i)er, Gagneron, Gagneret, Ga(i)gnerot, Gagnereau, Gagneraud, Gagnot, Ga(i)gnet, Gagneau, Gaigneaud, Gagnault, Gagn(i)ère, Gagnerie, and there are surely others. . . . the first Gagnons were from Lower Normandy, the same region where the Gagnés came from, which seems to indicate that both surnames were originally nicknames for plowmen.” ↩︎
- According to Norm Gagnon. ↩︎